The Writer’s Voice: Stretching Your Craft in Personal Nonfiction
Uncertain about handling emotional nuances in your material? Start your journey of crafting a rich, flexible writer's voice
LEARN YOUR CRAFT. LOVE YOUR WORDS.
Uncertain about handling emotional nuances in your material? Start your journey of crafting a rich, flexible writer's voice
Develop, write, and edit a publishable personal essay in six weeks, while building community.
Learn to find and tie together the theme in your vignettes, letters, diary entries and more, to create meaning, continuity and flow.
Unlock your storytelling potential and share your words with captivating brevity.
The fuel that runs the engine of all good writing is our uncertainty…and the true curiosity of the writer
Stuck in a writing rut? Playful exploration will enliven your primary work and foster a sustainable creative practice over a lifetime.
What order? What structure? Which essays? What about previously published work? Demystifying how to transform your essays into a book.
Unsure how to start writing about grief, loss, or trauma? Stuck midstream? Wondering how honest to be?
When we create images and scenes and shape our stories—transforming experience into art—we can also transform ourselves.
Write flash essays that convey the depth and breadth of your life stories.
Characterization in memoir is always a challenge: How can we make the people we know feel as real and alive for readers as they do to us?
A better proposal means a better book & better sales. Learn to identify and persuasively present the most marketable qualities of your project to secure a nonfiction book deal.